Wednesday Open Thread
Happy Cinco de Mayo Wednesday! Do you have plans to celebrate? It’s that time of day again when we publish an open thread. Write away!
This is hilarious! Very brave blogger Mike Stark tried to attend a Sue Lowden fundraiser in Washington, D.C.
Honestly, if Sue Lowden expects doctors to accept chickens for payment, what does she think politicians deserve? My proposal is dung beetles, but that’s just me. I know I’m kinda idiosyncratic… That’s why I brought a coupla Cornish Hens with me to her DC fundraiser today – just in case she held out for livestock.
Well, it turns out my fowl wasn’t good enough for her. I was shown the door.
No duh. The Lower Merion School District is in a lot of trouble, according to a report commissioned by the school district.
Inconsistent policies. Shoddy record-keeping. Misstep after misstep. “Overzealous” use of technology “without any apparent regard for privacy considerations.”
Those were the conclusions a team of attorneys and computer experts reached after a 10-week investigation into how, when, and why the Lower Merion School District turned on the Web cams and software that secretly snapped thousands of photos and screen shots from student’s laptop computers.
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But the report repeatedly faulted employees and administrators in one of the region’s elite public school districts as enamored of their cutting-edge technology even as they were blind to its risks.
The improperly collected images, the report said, “resulted from the district’s failure to implement policies, procedures, and record-keeping requirements, and the overzealous and questionable use of technology by [information services] personnel without any apparent regard for privacy considerations or sufficient consultation with administrators.”
I have no idea what all these adults were thinking. Why did they think they could take pictures of high school students in their bedrooms and not get in trouble? I imagine that the school district will go bankrupt defending itself. I can’t say they don’t deserve it.
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Obey Won’t Seek Re-election (Wisconsin BOMBSHELL!)
nro ^ | 5/5/2010 | daniel foster
In a major blow to Democrats, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey has told close associates that he will not seek re-election and an announcement of his plans is expected as early as Wednesday. The Wisconsin Democrat faces tough poll numbers at home but until Tuesday night his staff had insisted he was running aggressively and had hired campaign staff. But a person close to him confirmed the decision to POLITICO Wednesday and said Obey was preparing to make a statement.
And yet another member of the anti-gay Christian movement gets caught with a gay escort. Warning, some of the language in the article is NWS.
Washington Post just confirmed….Obey not running.
I am absolutely serious when I say Democrats should take on Sue Lowden by contributing chickens to her campaign. If her office is delivered several thousand chickens, she will be forced to either repudiate her position, which as I understand it is that chickens are a valid substitute for money, or take the chickens and have to deal with them.
Lowden’s already tried to walk it back. Her new plan is go to the emergency room. I’ve read that a lot of livestock has shown up at her campaign HQ.
is this some sort of secret message
Obey’s been in Congress since 1969 – longer than I’ve been alive.
UI – you’re just a whipper-snapper. 🙂
This guy, who has special terrorist-detecting eyeballs, is running against Alan Grayson in Florida.
David Obey as Chairman of the House Apprpriations Committee could have blocked a few bullshit war funding appropriations during the Bush Restoration. But he chose to “support the troops” instead.
I won’t miss him.
Last night at an otherwise fantastic evening at Citizens Bank Park, I witnessed yet another mental midget try his luck at outrunning security on the field. This nitwit ran out of gas early, stopped and put his hands behind his head, resigned to his fate.
Thomas Betz was not subjected to anything more than the wrath of the 44,000+ at the Bank and a verbal tongue lashing from Jayson Werth. I’m sure he has paid his $300 fine and is a free man today, pending minor drug charges notwithstanding.
It is time for Philadelphia City Council to act. Make field jumping not worth its while. $10,000 fine and 5 days in the pokey sounds like a good start to me.
Exactly, Another Mike. If they want to stop the field-jumping they can up the fines for it. $300 to look like a fool on TV might be a bargain to some drunk people but even drunk people would hesitate with a $10,000 fine.
Steve Benen notices that John Thune told an accidental truth:
Student minors routinely have their Constitutional protections violated. I’m sure it’s a huge surprise to anyone at Lower Merion that anyone cares.